On 2014/12/04 01:00 AM, Ward Walker wrote: > I'm not a fan of a program connecting to the Internet and performing a task > during startup. Legacy 8 already has a delay on startup. I agree with your > item b). Thus, if Legacy is configured to open in the Home tab, then the > check should be performed on startup. If Legacy is configured to open in the > Family tab, then no check should be performed on startup.
There' needn't be a delay. This is what multi-threading is designed for. Run the Update Check in a secondary thread that has no impact on the main, UI thread. -- Regards, Mike Fry (Jhb) Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
